New Labor: International Union Organizing Via Second LifeLast week, representatives from the AFL-CIO and the UK-based Trades Union Congress gathered at Second Life’s Union Island to discuss strategies to combat union-busting moves. Most concerning, according to the island’s official blog, is how "US union-busting companies are increasingly…SLHamlet
Warren EllisIf you don’t know who Warren Ellis is, you need to find out - simply put, he’s one of the best writers on the planet in any format he touches. And now he’s going to be writing a news columns from Second Life!
Good Summary of Virtual Worlds Forum Europe
Filed under: Events, Odds and Ends
Tech Digest does a good job here of highlighting 20 trends gleaned from their recent trip to the Virtual Worlds Forum Europe, and they go like this:
1. Shedloads of virtual worlds will be launched in 20082. Teen-focused virtual worlds are huge3. Brands still get […]
Links for Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Greenmonk: IBM, Big Green, Rational and Eco-aware Programming - “I am beginning to wonder if beautiful code is green code. Code generation tends to generate pretty ugly code - but is it less efficient? Developers that write beautiful code may end up in great demand for their green coding: […]
The $98 Million Ed Tech NightmareInteresting op-ed in the Washington Post by a 30-year English teacher at an Alexandria, Va. school that just spent $98 million on renovations and technologies that none of the teachers want to use.…faculty morale is the lowest and cynicism the highest I’ve seen inyears. The problem? What a former Alexandria […]
?I Never Knew I Could Have a Network?That quote from a teacher at one of the schools Sheryl and I are working with pretty much sums up the scale of the shift that a lot of educators (and others) are facing these days. And since I heard it last week in one of our sessions, […]
my call-in line: +1 (206) 350-4566I have a call-in line now! I thought it would be great to have also the option to call in to leave a message for my podcast.First I was looking for some VoIP-Provider to do that but they all seem to have several shortcomings:No voicemail at allNo was to email […]
Will the future be neural?It already was announced quite a while ago but as it was mentioned again yesterday during Coffee with Crayon in Second Life I had a closer look and it looks like it’s soon to be released.Huh? What are you talking about?Good question. I am talking about the Emotiv EPOC Neuroheadset which […]
Hire some journos!
Filed under: Op/Ed
If Linden Lab couldn’t find any evidence of wrongdoing at Wonderland, perhaps they need to hire some journalists to investigate incidents like this. It seems that most everyone else found something broadly offensive in the place, and well, the journalists apparently found the worst sort of offense in […]
Warren EllisIf you don’t know who Warren Ellis is, you need to find out - simply put, he’s one of the best writers on the planet in any format he touches. And now he’s going to be writing a news columns from Second Life!
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